Resources A-Z

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"The 1science solutions enable libraries to rapidly collect and broadly disseminate high-quality open access articles to researchers, as well as monitoring and reporting on journal usage statistics and open access publishing trends at their institutions."

Products Include:

oaFigr Institution: subscription service which provides bibliographic analysis of a university's active journal subscriptions and what proportion of the journal's articles are available in open access.
oaFindr: open access discovery platform which allows university's to find open access scholarly articles published in...

Provider: 1Science
Updated: Apr 18, 2018 5:10pm

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Digital archive of serials from the Wahdat Library, featuring 46 newspapers and journals published in Persian, Pushto, Arabic, Urdu, and English from Afghanistan. This archive from East View contains 3,587 full text issues dating from 1968 to 2001. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.

East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and are hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты) provides access to 1,874 issues of full-text newspapers published during the Gorbachev era. The dates covered in this collection are: 1983-present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.

East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

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Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive covering nearly 70 years of business scholarship indexing and citations. The archive includes indexes and citations of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and the complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957).

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Colonial Americais a five-module resource expected to incorporate all 1,450 files form the CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK. CO 5 contains the original correspondence between the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State and the English, later British, colonies in North America and the Caribbean from 1606-1822.

This is a five-module resource, with Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries expected to be released in September 2015.

Digital archive of the The Current Digest of the Chinese Press, a collection of full-text articles from key Chinese newspapers selected from a wide variety of news sources in China and translated into English. The digital archive from East View contains 373 issues dating from 2011 to the present.

East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

Digital archive of the Current Digest of the Russian Press, an aggregated collection of Russian newspapers translated into English. Founded in 1949, the journal was first published as The Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991), followed by The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010), and now The Current Digest of the Russian Press. The digital archive from East View contains 3,547 issues dating from 1949 to the present.

East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: May 6, 2020 5:02pm

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Gale's Digital Scholar Lab is a cloud-based research tool "that enables students and researchers to apply natural-language processing tools and raw text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sourcescollections in a single research platform." This resource is a tool that can be used for data mining and digital scholarship.

The Digital Scholar Lab is currently in testing with universities and is scheduled for full release in early 2018.

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Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive index chronicling over a half a century of education literature covering all levels of education and education specialties. Many of the indexes are peer-reviewed.

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The Global Press Archive (GPA) is an initiative by East View Information Services in partnership with Stanford University Libraries and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives to digitize over 2,000 predominantly foreign-language newspaper titles ranging in coverage from the late 19th century to present times. The GPA reportedly will digitally preserve and make searchable "more than 30 million pages of newspaper content" over several years.

GPA includes stand-alone titles and databases aggregating multiple titles from a specific region and time period. As of October 2019, GPA includes 20+ newspaper titles and aggregated archives available for purchase through East View.

The Gudok (Гудок) archive provides access to 26,447 digital issues of the Russian trade newspaper. This collection covers issues dating from 1918 to the present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.

East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: May 6, 2020 5:06pm

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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive index covering important humanities and social sciences journals published from 1907 to 1984. Indexing includes articles and book reviews.

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The Japan News provides access to the English-language daily from the publisher The Yomiuri Shimbun. Hosted on the Global Press Archive platform, this newspaper archive includes over 27,251 issues covering the period of 1955-present.

Digital archive of Jiefangjun Bao (解放军报), the official newspaper of the military of the People's Republic of China. The archive contains 22,443 full-text issues, dating from 1956 to the present. The archive is fully searchable by text.

East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: May 6, 2020 5:08pm

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The Kavkaz (Кавказ) digital archive contains 15,465 full text and full image issues of the historic Russian-language newspaper. The collection covers issues from 1846 to 1918. The archive is full-image and searchable text.

This is static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.

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